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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Trava is a modern travel agent that plans and books personalized trips for free, powered by AI. We created the next-generation of travel agent tech, and planned thousands of trips for real travelers!

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Yuzu is the fastest way to start building with market data: stock, crypto, ETFs, mutual funds, and forex.Yuzu is the first market data platform designed to eliminate data engineering. Leverage GraphQL, Streaming and SQL APIs to flexibly grab market data on-demand and build faster.Big challenges included serving terabyte-scale time-series datasets, latency-sensitive data pipelines processing hundreds of thousands of messages per second, scaling a public data-intensive GraphQL API, and building a safe and performant public SQL API, all while avoiding paying through the nose for AWS bandwidth.

AssetClass is a sleek, modern financial tracker for web and iOS that integrates with banks, brokerages, wallets, and crypto exchanges and provides a single view of one’s assets together with actionable insights.

San Francisco, California, Us

Hired and led the team that created, launched, scaled and supported Sonder’s beloved (4.7 stars) app experience. We grew it into the primary interface between travelers and Sonder, enabled differentiation through tech-enabled experiences like smart door locks and in-room grocery delivery, and was heavily touted in the S-1 (74 mentions) when the company went public!

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Early engineer, responsible for developing and defining the product and finding market fit.Designed, implemented, and led user acquisition, onboarding, and activation projects.Created and led development of the Magic app.https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magic-personal-assistant/id1198761760Created and led development of the Magic web-chat product.getmagic.com/chatCreated, supported, and evolved many internal and external web apps including an Email client, Calendar client, multiple API servers, getmagic.com, and more.Leveraged React-Native, React, NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, MeteorJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, and AWS.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Key member of the product team, responsible for core services at Expensify and major advances in functionality, quality, and performance.Team- Engineering team lead for core services, managing resource allocation and technical architecture.- Led team and company wide planning and prioritization, balancing company, team, and individual goals.- Introduced unit testing and continuous integration systems to multiple Expensify teams and platforms.- Unified disparate development environments into a single system to increase engineer productivity and allow engineers to work more effectively across all layers and systems in our tech stack.Product- Built and managed Expensify product development including: public APIs, SmartScan, "Realtime" expense reporting, SAML support, Expensify “Wingman”, Uber integration, push/email notifications, MMS uploads, image processing, billing/payments, our ETL pipeline, and more.- Continually scaled MySQL and Expensify’s custom-built distributed, encrypted databases to new challenges and growing requirements.- Rearchitected the backend of Expensify’s SmartScan receipt transcription system, scaling it to handle five times the load (so far) with no performance problems in sight.Security- Led development on Expensify’s PCI-DSS compliant systems and served as an encryption key custodian. Built secure storage and handled compliance for credit card numbers, bank account numbers, usernames, and passwords, personal transaction details, and ACH processing. Billions of dollars processed at a rate of millions per business day.- Rebuilt and migrated several of Expensify’s secure storage systems to remove insecure encryption modes and utilize authenticated encryption.- In an internal bug bounty program, identified and corrected 5 vulnerabilities allowing remote code execution or SSL private key retrieval, all of which had been missed by multiple independent professional penetration tests and security audits.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Back again to help rid the world of expense reports, I was lucky enough to be able to join the company while on an annual offshore trip to Croatia!- Led a team of senior engineers building a new internal API to support new feature development across web, mobile, and third party platforms.- Built a new authentication mechanism supporting delegating access from one user to another, including a full audit-trail of actions performed.- Built a system to enable non-technical team members to write, test, target, and send transactional emails triggered by events sourced from data warehousing systems.

San Francisco, California, Us

ZeroCater provided a unique opportunity to combine learning about a service industry with my passion for software. Working on an extremely nimble a team of two engineers with a great designer, I was responsible for every bit of the tech stack, working in extremely varied roles, doing things like AngularJS development, an initd to systemd migration, and database tuning and optimization. Most importantly, I helped build powerful tools that allowed our talented account managers to quickly and easily plan delicious meals for our clients!

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built a framework to extract travel itinerary information from customer receipts.Managed a team of what grew from one to seven contractors extending system functionality.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Updated and expanded testing procedures and methods, committed bug-fixes.Developed a bug tracker and customer management application tailored to the development group.

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Developed and applied website user analysis tools for a production government web application. Developed documentation included in project narratives.

Received tasks from school Systems AdministratorsInteracted with students and teachers to diagnose and solve problems